Born at Egham, Surrey.
Enlisted at London on the 15th of May 1854.
Age: 26.
Height: 5' 6".
Trade: Servant.
Features: Fresh complexion. Hazel eyes. Brown hair.
Embarked for the Crimea on the 28th of May and joined the regiment on the 20th of June 1855.
Embarked for India from Cork aboard the S.S. Great Britain on the 8th of October 1857.
The musters for July-September 1858 show no particular service movement during the whole of the period.
In action against the rebels at Zeerapore on the 29th of December 1858 and at Baroda on the 1st of January 1859.
Invalided to England on the 2nd of January 1861 and at the Maidstone Depot from the 13th of June.
Discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 12th of December 1861:
"Has varicose veins at lower extremities from fatigue on horseback during very long marches during the Indian Mutiny campaign. The disease has continued very steadily to increase and from the pain it gives unfits him for mounted duty or standing still for very long periods at a time or walking much. Was invalided home early in the present year (1861) and has done no mounted duty for two years."
Served 6 years 107 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 10 months. In India: 3 years 3 months.
Conduct: "good".
In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Never entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial.
To live in Staines, Middlesex, after discharge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with one clasp, and the Turkish medal. There is no mention of the Mutiny medal, but this could be because the Mutiny medals were not sent to the Depot until 1862.
Mutiny medal without clasp.